When the Entire Internet Seems to Break At Once

http://www.theatlantic.com ^ | Oct 21 2016 | Robinson Meyer and Adrienne Lafrance

[Beowulf9]

For more than two hours on Friday morning, much of the web seemed to grind to a halt—or at least slow to dial-up speed—for many users in the United States.

More than a dozen major websites experienced outages and other technical problems, according to user reports and the web-tracking site downdetector.com. They included The New York Times, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, EA, the Playstation network, and others.

How was it possible to take down all those sites at once?

[xkaydet65]

LOL!!!!

[combat_boots]

“Obama gave away control of the internet to the UN so that he could crash it, suspend the election, blame the Russians, and assume the role of dictator.”

You are making too much sense.

[LouieFisk]

“Occum?”
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And his evil twin brother, Occam.

[georgiegirl]

Our Zoho is down too. Here’s a list of sites that are down:

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835

[Big Horn]

Obama gave away control of the internet to the UN so that he could crash it, suspend the election, blame the Russians, and assume the role of dictator.

This is my biggest concern

[LouieFisk]

“I can’t even reach Harry’s shave. Who would do a DOS on a razor company?”
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I had no prob loading the site. Maybe it’s attack on ISP servers. Beats me.

[Talisker]

I can’t even reach Harry’s shave. Who would do a DOS on a razor company?

No one. That's how you know it's lower level than DDOS.

[jonno]

Are you on the east coast? we’ve still got a connection here in MN...

[BigEdLB]

My concern is that this is our government to try to block WikiLeaks and Veritas, because the “senior executive branch officials”. Know proof of treason is coming.

[Beowulf9]

No, Phoenix Az.

[goodnesswins]

no Twitter here...west coast 10am

[jonno]

Ok - interesting...

[LouieFisk]

"Here’s a list of sites that are down:" == From your link -
ActBlue Basecamp Big cartel Box Business Insider CNN Cleveland.com Esty Github Grubhub Guardian.co.uk HBO Now Iheart.com (iHeartRadio) Imgur Intercom Intercom.com Okta PayPal People.com Pinterest Playstation Network Recode Reddit Spotify Squarespace Customer Sites Starbucks rewards/gift cards Storify.com The Verge Twillo Twitter Urbandictionary.com (lol) Weebly Wired.com Wix Customer Sites Yammer Yelp Zendesk.com Zoho CRM Credit Karma Eventbrite Netflix NHL.com Fox News Disqus Shopify Soundcloud Atom.io Ancersty.com ConstantContact Indeed.com New York Times Weather.com

[Biggirl]

And bring about a violent revolt.

[jonno]

I should qualify by stating that I’m able to access Twitter using a browser via my PC - not a phone. Does that matter?

[LouieFisk]

“My concern is that this is our government to try to block WikiLeaks and Veritas, because the “senior executive branch officials”. Know proof of treason is coming.”
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Or, to channel Alex Jones, a “false flag” attack to blame Trump via “The Russians Are Coming!”

[goodnesswins]

neither my phone or PC can get twitter.

[bicyclerepair]

Holy cr@p Batman, I’ve never used one of those sites.

[georgiegirl]

The map of the states that are effected is at the link on post 24.

[DeWalt]

Test run. Look for real deal leading up to the election results.